New Catalog of Lehmann Library
The late Dr. Manfred Lehmann was a many sided person. He was a very successful international businessman, a fine Judaic scholar, a Passionate collector of Hebrew books and a well […]
Professor Jacob I. Dienstag, Maimonides Scholar
On Sunday March 22, Haifa’s Maimonides Research Center held its First National Awards Dinner at the Plaza Hotel. Several persons, including Dr. Henry J. Heimlich famous medical innovator and discoverer […]
The Rabbinic Literature of the Scholars of Aleppo
Aleppo is Syria (which the Jews identified as the Biblical Aram Tzova and called, in short Are”Tz) was for many centuries, a center of Torah studies. The city’s Jewish community […]
Yeshayahu Vinograd’s Monumental ‘Otzar HaSefer Halvri’
Three weeks ago, Yeshayahu Vinograd, director of the Institute for Computerized Bibliography in Jerusalem, came for a short visit to New York. He brought with him his eagerly awaited Thesaurus […]
Naftali Ben Menahem
Scholars, rabbis and writers rubbed shoulders at a reception tendered this week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Menahem, who have arrived from Israel for a short visit to […]
A New Publishing Venture — by Rabbi Moshe Feller
Two years ago was the centenary of the birth of Chaim Dov Friedberg, well known Hebrew author and bibliographer. He was born and raised in Cracow, lived in Frankfurt and […]
Rabbi Yehuda Rubinstein
On Rosh Hodesh Sivan, Rabbi Yehuda Rubinstein, the veteran Hebrew bibliographer, died in New York. He was in his eightieth year. Death came to him suddenly. Only a week before […]
The Hebrew Treasures of the Russian State Library
The Russian State Library in Moscow– until recently called the V.I. Lenin National Library of the Soviet Union – held an exhibition of Hebrew books last June. The exhibition was […]
Liepman Philip Prins – A Prince in Israel
Liepman Philip Prins- His Scholarly Correspondence, which was published by Ktav some time ago, presents us with the story and scholarly correspondence of an extraordinary man: A layman steeped in […]
Yosef Goldman’s Hebrew Printing in America
Yosef Goldman, a New York Hebrew bibliographer and collector of books, recently published Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography. The two volume folio size work is […]